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Earlier this month AMD unveiled their Richland desktop APUs as an upgraded version of Trinity. While still based upon Piledriver CPU cores, the AMD A10-6800K APU under Linux is a modest upgrade until the arrival of the Jaguar-based APUs. For starting off our Linux testing of the A10-6800K are Ubuntu Linux benchmarks of this high-end Richland APU compared against the A10-5800K Trinity APU.

I'm not even suprised anymore. It's a classical Phoronix benchmark
If it's an nVidia benchmark, there are no ATi Cards, if it's an Intel
integrated graphics, they're not compared to ATi's APU's, and if it's
an AMD CPU you can be damn sure there won't be any Intel processor
thrown in for a good measure.

What's the point of this? If there is any inherent value in benchmarking
it's so that customers can evaluate performance/price/wattage ratios.
Why is it so hard for Phoronix to get this right is beyond me. Pshaw!

I'm not even suprised anymore. It's a classical Phoronix benchmark
If it's an nVidia benchmark, there are no ATi Cards, if it's an Intel
integrated graphics, they're not compared to ATi's APU's, and if it's
an AMD CPU you can be damn sure there won't be any Intel processor
thrown in for a good measure.

What's the point of this? If there is any inherent value in benchmarking
it's so that customers can evaluate performance/price/wattage ratios.
Why is it so hard for Phoronix to get this right is beyond me. Pshaw!

Ads revenues.

You will find Intel CPU benchmarks soon. And You will be able to compare them directly... You just wont find them on same graph. (Untill Michael do some bigger benchmark...)

A 6800K is a 5800K rebrand with slightly higher frequencies and much higher price, that's all.

No it's not. There were some die optimizations done. At the same clock speeds (overclocked 5800k), the a10-6800k draws less power. Comparing stock for stock, you get (slightly) better performance with the same power usage. Do a google search and you can confirm this via various tests.

That said, it's probably not worth the upgrade from the a10-5800k. If you don't already own a 5800k however, the a10-6800k is a damn solid performer.

Yep, it seems that the "performance-per-watt" code is still wrong. Otherwise how could the overclocked chip have such good performance-per-watt values beating the stock chip by such a large difference? It consumes 45% more power than at stock speeds for a small 12% increase in performance. It should have much worse performance-per-watt. How can an article this wrong be published? No wonder no one takes phoronix seriously...

This is Phoronix, Larabel has to ad whore himself out with about a dozen say nothing articles a day. If you think the masturbatory linkback soup that is the standard Phoronix news piece is bad, try it without Adblock, they are so prevalent that the entire article is nothing but links.

Most of the benchmark software seems to be about as useful as that crap SuperPI. The gaming benchmarks are a total joke, since he can't even be bothered to even use something like the HL2:Lost Coast benchmark, which at least was for many years a decent GPU test on Windows. That the latest Unigine benchmark runs at 6FPS no matter the GPU doesn't say much, you need something closer to real world expectations.

Originally Posted by clavko

What's the point of this? If there is any inherent value in benchmarking
it's so that customers can evaluate performance/price/wattage ratios.
Why is it so hard for Phoronix to get this right is beyond me. Pshaw!

You do realize that once he does do a comparison he'll use the i7 4770K as the CPU to compete against and when he compares the GPU he'll pair it against the Iris Pro 5200, because it's so fair to expect a $150 part to beat parts in the $350 range.

Originally Posted by Calinou

A 6800K is a 5800K rebrand with slightly higher frequencies and much higher price, that's all.